Rivers Welcomes Board President and New Trustees
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obert J. Davis was reelected in June to the Rivers Board of Trustees and appointed Board President to succeed Clinton P. Harris. As the father of three Rivers alumni, Davis is well versed in Rivers’ mission and philosophy. After joining the Board in 2003, he served on a number of committees, including Facilities, Committee on Trustees, Athletics, Major Gifts, and the Executive Committee before retiring briefly in 2013. Most recently he was a member of the Head of School search committee. Davis has been a managing partner at Highland Capital Partners since 2001, currently focusing primarily on digital media. Prior to joining Highland, he served as chief executive officer of Terra Lycos and president and chief executive officer of Lycos, Inc. He holds a bachelor of science degree from Northeastern University, an M.B.A. from Babson College, as well as honorary doctorate degrees from both Bentley College and Northeastern. Davis has served on the boards of several public and private sector companies including the Children’s Hospital Trust Board and the Board of Advisors for the Boston College Carroll School of Management. He and his wife Rita live in Southborough and are the parents of Brian ’06, Michelle ’08, and Daniel ’13. Todd Dagres is a founder and general partner at Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that “partners with exceptional entrepreneurs seeking to build disruptive, world-changing companies.” With twelve investment professionals and offices now in Boston, New York, and San Francisco, Spark has now raised five funds that total approximately $1.8 billion. Spark Capital was one of the earliest investors in Twitter as well as in Tumblr which was bought last year by Yahoo. Previously Dagres was a general partner at Battery Ventures, senior technology analyst at Montgomery Securities and Smith Barney/Robinson Humphrey, vice-president of communications at the Yankee Group, and business development manager at Digital Equipment. He has also produced several feature films including Pretty Persuasion, Transsiberian, and Nothing Left to Fear. Dagres has a B.S. in psychology from Trinity College and an M.B.A. from Boston University. He has three children, including Ava in Rivers’ Class of 2019, and recently joined Rivers’ Marketing Committee. He is on the President’s Advisory Board at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the board of the Children’s Hospital Trust, and is the founder of the Face of an Angel Foundation for Children with Vascular Lesions.
Robert J. Davis
Todd Dagres
Board of Trustees 2014–2015 PRESIDENT: Robert J. Davis
Term Trustees Dennis Baldwin Benjamin R. Bloomstone Robert E. Buonato ’81 James F. Carlin ’81 Louise Cummings ’98 Todd A. Dagres Howard G. Davis ’70 Ben D. Fischman Mark R. Florence Clinton P. Harris Stephen M. Jennings
Daniel A. Kraft Hongmei Li Barbara V. Ligon Deborah H. McAneny Daniel R. Revers Alan D. Rose ’87 Solomon B. Roth Laurie Schoen Mark S. Schuster ’72 Andrew P. Slifka Laurie Slifka Richard L. Smith
Steven J. Snider Michael P. Stansky Eric M. Wolf Life Trustees David M. Berwind Charles C. Carswell Stephen R. Delinsky Peter A. Gaines G. Arnold Haynes Harriet R. Lewis Thomas L. Lyons
Honorary Trustees of the Corporation Roy S. MacDowell, Jr. Joan T. Allison Joel B. Sherman Thomas P. Beal Frances B. Shifman Richard A. Bradley William B. Tyler ’43 Marie Fitzpatrick Joan A. Vaccarino Louis J. Grossman ’67 Cai von Rumohr Joshua M. Kraft ’85 Joan C. Walter Warren M. Little ’51 Frank S. Waterman III ’41 Virginia S. MacDowell Dudley H. Willis Deborah S. Petri Frederick G. Pfannenstiehl Fall 2014 • Riparian’59 • 3 A. Tozzer Spalding ’62